This graduate level text has been acknowledged as one of the best overviews on the history of teaching children to read, and designated a "classic" in the field of reading education. The Third Edition contains the original text in its entirety (thus permitting consistent referencing), plus a fifty page new introduction written by Dr. Chall which summarizes the reaction and research on the debate from 1983 to present.
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